Excerpt from The Economic Development of France: And Germany 1815-1914 My references to Socialism may seem inadequate. The point of view I have adopted throughout is that I am writing a history not of economic Opinion but of economic fact. I have therefore tried to indicate the circumstances which tended to produce or popularise socialist thought, but not to analyse that thought. There was really very little Socialism, in any strict sense, in the world of economic fact in 1914. Having touched on so many topics and, in the latter part of the book, quoted so many figures, I can only hope that the mis takes which certainly exist will not prove to be too glaring. I have done my best to insure accuracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.